To busy to detail right now but the RDCV is we returned home Friday evening, BSU is much improved, some homework remains to be caught up. And the job has piled up nicely. More tonight. Thank you for your kind words and prayers.
OK, the long version of last week's saga...
As noted I got an early morning wakeup call to tell me that the BSU had gone from being an Urgent Care patient to an Emergency Room Patient and hospital stay patient overnight. Her diverticulitus had gotten out of control and she was being given morphine for the pain and having all foods and liquids restricted.
Surgery was on the lips of the ER docs.
That's a really bad thing...
So I grabbed the earliest possible Southwest Airlines flight and got myself to Oregon. Spouse was being tended to by a couple sisters when I finally arrived but she was glad to see me, if a little bit surprised.
Long story shortened considerably- lots of waiting, as usual when anyone is in the hospital. The staff doc was not so anxious to start cutting as the ER doc and so he advised lots of meds and patience.
With the exception of fielding the phone calls from the United Nations angrily claiming that antiobiotics promised to tsunami victims was disappearing up the Spouse's arm, there was nothing to do but let the meds and the prayer have their affect. Which both did in respectable time. She was finally allowed gelatin on Wednesday lunch and a soft meal for dinner and regular food for breakfast on Thursday morning while the wonderful staff prepared for her discharge in the afternoon.
I rode the Portland Max light rail out to the airport, rented a car and drove back to sweep my bride away from the hospital and out to her home town and medicinal outpost of St Helens. The car turned out to be a 2004 Cadillac Deville for just $5 more than the sub-compact I intended to rent! What a sweet car! But never mind that...
We rested up at one of the sister's and entertained a couple more Thursday evening for a bit then caught a good night's rest, (my first since Saturday night), and then took the Caddy back down highway 30 to 84 east and the airport without incident. We were home safely Friday evening and glad of it!
So thanks again for all your kind thoughts and prayers and words. They are appreciated. BTW, the sister that the BSU went to visit before her lung cancer surgery? The cancer has spread to both lungs and her lymph system. Very bad news for her. She's hurting and angry and scared. Not surprising I suppose.
Anyway, homework's done for tonight and its time for The Tonight Show and Headlines!
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